Ann: Environmental Milestone Reached on the Wolfsberg Project, page-115

@Beton2 what are your qualifications to make all those assumptions/predictions?
Firstly, most of Europe has been mined, Austria has been mined to the hilt, initially by the Romans, the entire Hohe Tauern region was mined for all sorts of things, gold foremost, precious stones but mostly iron ore - then a tribe, the tauriscii, traded with the Romans - I took my nic partly from that.
And do you remember what the Romans called the British Isles? The tin Isles! - because they went there to mine tin.

There is still some Iron ore around in Styria, which is right next to Carynthia, where Wolfsberg is situated, so there is still some mining going on, there is a very good mining academy in Styria (Graz) - but tourism is a big income factor, also. There is also still farming, specialised meat production, growing of special crops, pumpkin seed oil production is important in Styria, fruit crops for things like Slivovitz, apricot brandy are grown, and not to forget wine, Styria, Burgenland, Lower Austria, Carynthia grow great wine crops - and there is still some industry and heaps of people, via migration, too many, in fact.

Austria was absolutely broken after WWI (so was Germany) - because it had lost its agricultural hinterland (Hungary, Northern Yugoslavia, the hard-working Czechs etc.) and it was not a manufacturing country - but that has changed, but I wouldn't know what the big industries are nowadays - I do know there is still some oil, but also a large oil installation for miles around the airport of Schwechat, where incoming oil is stored and sold on. (I had an uncle who was working as an oil engineer after WWII, and eventually went to live and work in Germany.)

The metal trades and its products were always big in Austria, if you had some qualifications in that, you never went without a job.
In former times the various artistic skills of the smith were also very much appreciated as still seen in many of the lovely wrought iron work you see around Austria's cities and country towns.
NIMBYism is a trait shared by all nations, but particularly if your main income is via the beauty of its landscapes, which attracts tourism, possibly not as pronounced in a big land like Australia, but foremost because the mostly migrant population of Australia has yet to learn to care about the land. like its original inhabitants did. I know this is a controversial statement, but check it out and see what we allow our big mine owners do with their riches; most of it flows, minimally taxed, out of Australia to international owners.
Taurisk